Frederick Philipse Robinson
Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson | |
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Portrait by George Theodore Berthon | |
| Born | September 1763 Highlands, New York |
| Died | 1 January 1852 (aged 88) Brighton, England |
| Buried | Parish Church, Hove, England |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Branch | British Army |
| Years of service | 1777–1852 |
| Rank | General |
| Unit | Various regiments |
| Commands | Inspecting Field Officer, Bedford Inspecting Field Officer, London Brigade, 5th Division 5th Division 4th Brigade, America Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada Governor of Tobago |
| Battles / wars | |
| Awards | Army Gold Medal |
| Children | 4 |
| Relations | Beverley Robinson (father) Susannah Philipse (mother) |
General Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson, GCB (September 1763 – 1 January 1852) was a British Army officer who served in the American War of Independence and the Napoleonic Wars. His father, Colonel Beverley Robinson, was a Virginian who moved to New York, marrying a wealthy heiress of the Philipse family with Dutch and Bohemian ancestry, Susanna Philipse. Frederick was born in the Hudson Highlands on the family estate in the Philipse Patent, today's Putnam County, New York, in September 1763.
On the conclusion of peace he went to England. In 1813 and 1814 he commanded a brigade under the Duke of Wellington in Spain. He subsequently took part in the War of 1812 with the United States, leading troops during the unsuccessful Plattsburgh campaign. He was a provisional Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada in 1815. Afterwards he was governor of Tobago, and he became a general in 1841. In time he became the oldest soldier in the British service, and died at Brighton, England, at the age of 88.